Under the 2017 accord, Italia and the EU help fund, train and equip the Libyan coastguard, which then intercepts
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Critics lament a lack of accountability, with no public information on who receives the money in Libya, while rescuers slam a "Wild West" situation with armed militias posing as the Libyan coastguard.
The appeal by 40 organizations including Save the Children, Doctors Without Borders and Amnesty, calls for urgent action by Italia's new far-right government, which was sworn in at the weekend.
If Rome does not scrap the deal by November 2, it will be automatically renewed for another three years.
In her inaugural speech to parliament, new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni vowed Tuesday to take a tough line on boat
'CAPTURES, PUSHBACKS'
Italia has long been on the migration frontline, taking in tens of thousands of people who attempt the world's deadliest crossing yearly.
It had numerous agreements during the 2000s with Libyan leader Moamer Qadaffy on curbing migratory flows.
The partnership was suspended following the collapse of the Libyan government and the European Court of Human Rights' 2012 condemnation of Italia for intercepting and forcibly returning people to Libya.
But wars in Syria, Iraq and Libya sparked a wave of refugees in 2015, with over 150,000 people crossing in boats to Italia, followed by over 180,000 people in 2016.
Thousands more died trying.
In 2017, Italia's centre-left prime minister Paolo Gentiloni signed a new deal with Fayez al-Serraj, head of the UN-backed Libyan Government of National Accord, aimed at reducing the flow.
From then onwards, rescue charities including the Alarm Phone hotline used by
She said it was "not possible to consider the forcible return of people desperate to flee".
The so-called coastguard "fire weapons, they perform dangerous manuevers that risk causing shipwrecks... We can describe the returns as captures, as pushbacks, but not as rescues," she added.
The EU has contributed 58 million euros to date to the accord.
Investigative Italian journalist Duccio Facchini on Monday revealed Italia had spent another 6.65 million euros on 14 new speed boats for the Libyan coastguard just a few months ago.